Chapter 21: The Nightmare
"Brother Cat!"
Looking at the messy room, Chen Xiaodonkey shouted with countless doubts.
"Meow~" A cat meow came from outside the door.
Seeing Brother Cat standing there in a dignified manner, not even a single hair was injured, Chen Xiaodonkey suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, "Brother Cat, you really scared me to death, I thought you were killed." ”
It's nothing that the Taiping Order is gone, he puts things in the room, itself is a ruin and waiting for someone who wants to pick it up.
But if Brother Cat wants to have some accident because of this matter, he really doesn't know how to make up for it.
Brother Cat didn't pay attention to Chen Xiaodonkey's bastard words, it seemed to be very hungry, ran up to the table and sniffed the food, and then opened a gobble and devoured it.
Chen Xiaodonkey quickly cleaned up the messy room and began to eat along.
It's just that the food of this meal is not sweet.
What happened in the room forced him to think about why.
If it is said that he received an anonymous letter from unknown sources a few days ago, and someone came to read the Taiping Order, it just made him feel a little worried.
But the situation in the house today made him feel dangerous.
But it's still the same question as before, why?
Chen Xiaodonkey kept making all kinds of possible deductions in his mind, and the final results all pointed to the most head-wrenching and least desirable possibility for him - the person who came this time was not the same as the person who wrote the anonymous letter!
So this wave of people is also looking for the Taiping Order, but the trick is not open and bright, haven't they found it at all?
Chen Xiaodonkey's eyes were gloomy, and the troubles that followed made him suddenly think of the two words his father had said when he was still very young, when his father hung this thing around his neck before going out for the last time.
"Zhibai, you are a manly husband, when your father is away, you must protect your mother."
"Also, the Taiping Order is hot, but you have to wear it, it's a talisman, it's also a life talisman, you must not let others know that it is on you!"
At that time, he and his parents were still in Rehe.
At that time, I was young, and I didn't know the true meaning of these two sentences, but I remember that my mother cried very much that day, and my father went out after eating, and there was no news from him.
"There is a repeat and a second, there is no a repeat and a fourth!" Slapping the chopsticks on the table, Chen Xiaodonkey opened the secret grid again and hung the Taiping Order around his neck again.
The first time, someone found it, but they didn't take it away, and then someone came to look for it, but they didn't find it.
Chen Xiaodonkey suddenly understood that there are some things that you can hide without wanting to.
Chen Xiaodonkey didn't go to the big world again this night, because according to the rules of the Li family's generation who take turns to go to the old mansion every day to accompany him, Li Hu should really be in the Li house in the countryside tonight.
As the night deepened and sleepiness set in, he lay down on the mat and fell asleep, and a strange dream enveloped him.
"Where is this?"
Chen Xiaodonkey found himself in a strange place. It is surrounded by a smooth earthen wall, and overhead is an arched canopy, on which oil lamps are lit every few meters.
By the light of the oil lamp, he could barely see his surroundings, which turned out to be an empty hall, and he stood in the center of the hall.
"Anyone? Where is this? I don't know why, he suddenly had some heart palpitations, and asked loudly, but no one answered, only his own voice kept echoing.
It's weird, but there's a door over there!
Turning his gaze, he soon spotted a small half-open door in the wall not far away, and a brighter light came out of the door. He thought for a moment, walked to the door, and looked inside.
Behind the door was a room with a blazing torch fixed in it, and the light was the light of the torch.
And before the torch, there is a square sarcophagus with a strange copper bell hanging in the corner!
The coffin, this is a burial chamber!
Chen Xiaodonkey reacted suddenly, and then his whole body was cold, as if he was frozen.
"Lao Chen, there is no time, those children who were sacrificed alive have signs of defrauding their corpses, they have to leave quickly!"
Suddenly, a voice came from behind him, and he immediately turned around to see a man with a cloak on his body, but whose face could not be seen clearly, holding a torch approaching him.
But the man didn't seem to see him, and went straight into the burial chamber that connected to the hall.
The title of Lao Chen attracted the attention of Chen Xiaodonkey.
Holding back his discomfort, he walked inside, only to find that there was another person in the tomb. The man stood at the head of the sarcophagus, half-bowed, as if he wanted to see through the coffin in front of him with his eyes.
Seeing the person's appearance clearly, Chen Xiaodonkey was like being struck by lightning, and shouted loudly: "Dad!?" ”
That turned out to be his father, Chen Taiping, who had been missing for ten years!
However, his shouts did not attract the attention of the two people in the tomb, and the man in the cloak and Chen Taiping stood at each end of the sarcophagus, and the man urged: "Old Chen, let's go, there is really no time!" ”
"Let's go!" Chen Taiping nodded, picked up the torch fixed next to the sarcophagus, and the two walked to the other end of the tomb one after the other.
Only then did Chen Xiaodonkey notice that there was an arched small mouth over there, and the back was pitch black, which should be a corridor.
Why do they see themselves? What the hell is going on?
Seeing that his father was leaving, Chen Xiaodonkey was extremely anxious, but the shouting had no effect.
In desperation, he rushed over to grab his father's arm, but was suddenly avoided by his sideways, and then saw that the eyes that should have been soft in his memory, but were very sharp at this time, locked on his body.
The father and son looked at each other, Chen Taiping seemed to have seen something that shocked him extremely much, and his pupils shrank suddenly.
"Lao Chen, what's wrong?" The man in the cloak heard the movement and turned around and asked.
"Nothing, let's go." Chen Taiping shook his head and strode towards the road, Chen Xiaodonkey wanted to pull it, but he grabbed it again.
That night, Cao Hou rode a bicycle to the Li Mansion in the countryside, hid the car in the woods, and took advantage of the night to climb over the wall again.
Everything is as the little donkey expected, there are a lot of people in the Li house tonight.
In addition, many places are also pasted with fresh cinnabar painted yellow symbols.
However, this is basically useless to Cao Hou, he quietly sneaked to the gate of Li Mansion to take a look, and found that there was an old man with fairy wind bones who had set up the altar there, and on the side, Li Mingshi took his youngest son to watch.
"If this is useful, didn't your fat man smash his job earlier? Hey, don't let the little donkey make too much noise tonight, and you're lucky to be an old god! Cao Hou pursed his lips and muttered quietly, and then touched the old lady's main house again.
Seeing that the old lady was still kneeling in the Buddhist hall, and there were four maids waiting next to him, he blew a tube of soul incense through the crack in the window, and when he saw that the people in the room seemed to squint, he pinched his tiger's mouth to keep the pain, entered through the window, and then began to act according to the little donkey's explanation.
"Squeak~"
I don't know who is watching the chickens in the alley and suddenly crow.
"Dad!" Chen Xiaodonkey shouted anxiously and woke up from his sleep suddenly.
Looking at the light that he forgot to turn off, and the familiar furnishings in the room illuminated by the light, he couldn't slow down for a long time.
It wasn't until a drop of sweat fell from the tip of his nose that he suddenly felt a stirring spirit and touched his head, all sweaty, and I didn't know whether it was hot or frightened.
It's a dream.
It's just how could you have such a weird dream?
Finding that Brother Cat didn't know when he was standing next to him, staring at him with a pair of deep pupils, Chen Xiaodonkey had mixed feelings.
Since his father disappeared, he has not dreamed, but almost all of them are illogical, fragmented fragments, and there has never been such a strange picture.
If a dream is a person's subconscious self-suggestion to himself, then just like imagination, there should be a reference object, but this dream is really strange.
Seven years ago, after spending all his family money for his mother's medical treatment, and he couldn't even open the pot, he was still a half-grown child, and in desperation, he took a shovel into Nurul Tiger Mountain, and dug into a big tomb, although he almost died several times, but that big tomb really raised him and his mother for two whole years.
Coffins, there are also references. Although the sarcophagus seen in the dream is a bit strange, it is still within the range of a person's continuous association.
But what about people?